Microsoft® .NET Compact Framework (Core Reference)

Calling COM Objects

The full .NET Framework provides a high degree of transparent calling between unmanaged code in COM components and managed .NET code. In particular, the full .NET Framework arranges for method calls between the two environments to be almost transparent, and to a large extent, legacy COM objects can be treated in the same way as .NET classes. The following section assumes a familiarity with COM development. A full discussion of COM development is outside the scope of this book. You might want to refer to a book such as David Iseminger’s COM+ Developer’s Reference Library (Windows Programming Reference Series), Microsoft Press, 2000.

In comparison to the full .NET Framework, COM wrapper functionality in the .NET Compact Framework ...